“I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.”

“Aren't you afraid you will be damned?''I believe I already am, but not by the Holy Spirit,' said Delaura without alarm. 'I have always believed He attributes more importance to love than to faith.”

“If they believe it in the Bible, I don't see why they shouldn't believe it from me.”

“What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.”

“The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”

“This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.”

“This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.”